Man-hour vs. person-hour? Is the former now considered politically incorrect?Your suggestion of "huperson" is etymologically unsound. "Human" is from Latin humanus, and has nothing to do with men, for which the Latin word was vir. Substituting "person" for the "man" in "human" makes about as much sense as replacing "supersonic" with "superchildic"; if you really wanted to go that ridiculous route, you should have suggested "huperchild".

Is “I believe x does not equal y” the same as “I don't believe x equals y”One example of this is that one need not believe either of 1. Hilary Clinton will be elected President in 2016. 2. Hilary Clinton will not be elected President in 2016. For a person (such as myself) who does not believe either statement, the claim “I don't believe that Hilary Clinton will be elected President in 2016” is true, while the claim “I believe Hilary Clinton will not be elected President in 2016” is false.

What is the proper term for a ternary digit?But OP asked specifically about variables that represent true, false and unknown, and there is no way to compose such quantities into numerals. It is a little hard to say for sure, because ‘trit’ is not a common term, but I think ordinary usage of ‘trit’ does not extend to such situations, and I would be reluctant to believe that it did without seeing specific examples.

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What is the proper term for a ternary digit?I don't think this is the correct answer to OP's question. Not every three-state variable is a trit. A trit is a ternary digit, which means it is a component of a radix-3 numeral. There are several ways to represent numbers with three-state quantities (‘balanced ternary’ for example), and the components of those representations might be called trits. (continued)